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Will these white cars be used for the UN invasion of America after the next terrorist attack?
By ERIN E. ARVEDLUND (NYT) Published: December 20, 2003
In a first for the Kremlin, President Vladimir V. Putin officially observed Hanukkah with invitations to Russia's chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, and Aleksandr Boroda, a local Jewish leader. ''I'm congratulating the whole Jewish community, everybody who professes Judaism and treats this tradition with care,'' Mr. Putin said, according to the Itar-Tass news agency. He also announced his support for a Russian-Jewish history museum to be built in Moscow. Erin E. Arvedlund (NYT)
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In Russia, a Top Rabbi Uses Kremlin Ties to Gain Power
"Putin's Support Gives Clout to Chabad Sect
Name of Publication/May 8, 2007 By Guy Chazan
Moscow -- Of all the strange relationships that define today's Russia, few are stranger than the alliance between President Vladimir Putin and an ultra-Orthodox rabbi named Berel Lazar.
Rabbi Lazar is a follower of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic sect based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, that is on the fringes of mainstream Judaism. Its devotees are known for their love of the Rebbe, their late spiritual leader. Some even think he's the Messiah.
In Russia, the Lubavitch are not a marginal sect but a dominant force in Jewish life. Their leader, Rabbi Lazar, goes by the title of Russia's chief rabbi and is viewed by many to be head of the country's Jewish community.
Thriving on Mr. Putin's patronage, his organization, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, is now one of Russia's leading charities, with schools, clinics, orphanages and community centers across the country. Some credit it with single-handedly reviving Jewish life in the Russian hinterlands.
But critics charge its success is based on a Faustian bargain with the Kremlin. They say Rabbi Lazar has at times deliberately played down anti-Semitism in Russia and acted as a lobbyist for Mr. Putin around the world. In exchange, Chabad-Lubavitch enjoys unparalleled political influence and has been allowed to gain control of millions of dollars worth of communal property from the Russian state, often trouncing rival claims from other Jewish organizations, critics say.
"There were always court Jews under the Czars, under the Soviets," says Yevgeny Satanovsky, a Jewish community leader. "Lazar is firmly in that tradition."
A jovial father of 12 in a traditional black gabardine suit and fedora, Rabbi Lazar, 42 years old, says his influence is exaggerated. "There's this myth that I have the key to the president's office," he laughs. But he quickly adds: "I think it's very important to have a good relationship with the authorities." Brushing off claims he's too soft on Mr. Putin and his crackdown on democracy, he says it's not his place to speak out on issues not directly related to Jewish life.
Rabbi Lazar's rise coincided with Mr. Putin's drive to centralize power and crush dissent. After entering the Kremlin in 2000, the new president silenced independent media, jailed critical businessmen, neutered parliament and nationalized energy assets.
But his reach also extended deep into civil society. Organizations loyal to Mr. Putin, such as the Federation of Jewish Communities, known in Russian as FEOR, were protected and promoted, Kremlin critics say. Those he saw as untrustworthy were pushed aside. Sometimes, when a group was independent, the authorities simply created a clone that was more pliant, critics have alleged. ...."
Thriving on Mr. Putin's patronage, his organization, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, is now one of Russia's leading charities, with schools, ... www.rickross.com/reference/lubavitch/lubavitch48.html